Being the director general of the Institute of Directors gives you a licence to opine on almost anything and current incumbent Simon Walker has often used the platform effectively.

Barclays was genuinely stung when Walker criticised the bank's decision to pay higher bonuses in the face of lower profits. And his description of HS2 as "a grand folly" showed that the business world was far from united on the wisdom of building a high-speed railway.

Fifa president Sepp Blatter, though, may not be trembling in fear now that Walker has called his organisation "a derided pariah" with "an unaccountable and dysfunctional governance structure" that "seems to remain befouled by corruption".

Walker is right, of course, and he's got an admirable turn of phase. It's just that it would be astonishing if reform of the football world governing body ranks among the top 100 concerns of Institute of Directors members.